RE: Living With Consciousness: Is Personal Growth Necessarily Scary?
It differs from person to person, some people learn during their struggle life and some people learn during their normal life. In my 2 cent opinion mostly people get panic during trouble, and they commit more mistake than in normal routine. There is a famous proverb no pain no gain self development is perfect example of this proverb. you have to pay some thing for the development. child come in this world without knowing the art except weeping. he break his shyness and start learning how to listen how to talk, when he grow older he try to start walking but can't do it without crawling so the life moves on. Struggle will remain there from one stage to an other. for Self development pain often comes, but it all depends how you take this pain/effort. Enlightenment comes after suffering in most cases.
Personally, I tend to be all over the place when I am in a prolonged painful and stressful situation-- or perhaps "panic," as you describe it. At such times, I am usually too busy freaking out and making mistakes and bad decisions to be concerned with "learning experiences." I just take whatever steps I can to get OUT of my predicament.
After the fact, we probably learn from all kinds of situations, but I know I am more open to the learning when I am feeling calm and balanced.
yes people do a lot of mistake when become panic. life always teach you all the time. Enjoyable phase of learning is by feeling calm.